http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18289 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:18:37 GMT 2026-06-01T15:18:37Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18295 Tytuł: The role of metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science literature Autorzy: Gabidullina, Alla; Sokolova, Anastasiia; Kolesnichenko, Olena; Zharykova, Maryna; Shlapakov, Oleh Abstrakt: Metonymy and polysemy in academic and popular science texts are useful linguistic phenomena that aid in interpreting complex specialised terms by capturing various meanings in scientific terminology. The relevance of the study is determined by the necessity to clarify the functions and contextual motivation behind the use of metonymy and polysemy in conveying scientific information. The research aims to analyse theories related to metonymy and polysemy, different types of these stylistic figures, and determine which ones are most productive for scientific style. The results of the study revealed that metonymic expressions can be used to condense narratives and convey precise terms and definitions. On the other hand, polysemy assists in selecting the most appropriate among multiple meanings of the same term. The findings of this paper can be beneficial to linguists, teachers, and researchers from various scientific fields who seek to enhance the accuracy and comprehensibility of their scientific work. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18295 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18294 Tytuł: The bright side of fashion: Environmental and social sustainability in the south of Italy Autorzy: Jimenez, Jean M.; Marcella, Vanessa Abstrakt: Growing societal and academic concern regarding environmental damage has led the fashion industry to engage more with sustainability (Li et al., 2024). This paper examines Il Nido di Seta, a small fashion and agricultural cooperative in southern Italy, which has initiated a regenerative silk production program and has recently developed a collaborative project with Gucci. The study investigates Il Nido di Seta’s ecological language, addressing themes related to global fashion, ecotourism, and regional enhancement. Based on a corpus of texts from the cooperative’s website as well as texts from Gucci’s Equilibrium Impact Report 2022 and sections of the Kering Report which refer to their collaboration with Il Nido di Seta, this research analyses ecological discourse and assesses how these topics appear on Il Nido di Seta’s Instagram posts (N=363) from 2019 to 2024. Through corpus linguistics, content analysis, and framing analysis, the study explores term frequency, content alignment, and how ecological messages are conveyed multimodally on social media. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18294 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18293 Tytuł: Imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay in the sitcom Modern Family: A relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatic approach Autorzy: Wieczorek, Magdalena Abstrakt: The paper analyses imperfect homophony as a source of wordplay, with a view to delineating the way two concepts or only one concept is valid for the discourse. Second, it investigates the source of the contextual information required for the identification of the target expression. The analysis is performed in the light of Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory. It will be demonstrated that the target concept is accessed via activating a search for relevance triggered by the phonetic similarity between two concepts as well as the linguistic context. The findings of a study will demonstrate that puns stemming from imperfect homophony can be divided into those in which two concepts are facilitated and juxtaposed in linguistic context and thus their encyclopaedic entries are fully valid for the overall humorous interpretation and those in which only one novel concept is valid for the ongoing conversation. In addition, the puns under analysis can be categorised according to the criterion of the source of contextual information required for the identification of the target expression. In the paper, the key role of context will be discussed and specified, with the emphasis on the viewer’s perspective. The theoretical proposals are illustrated with imperfect homophony-based puns derived from the sitcom Modern Family. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18293 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18292 Tytuł: Bilingual attitudes of philology students in a multilingual environment Autorzy: Váradi, Krisztián Abstrakt: The aim of the present study is to investigate the attitudes of philology students towards bilingualism in a multilingual environment. The research was conducted among students majoring in Hungarian, English, Ukrainian, and German language and literature at the Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Data were collected with the help of an online attitude survey (N=185) and three focus group interviews (N=12). Based on the results, philology students have generally positive attitudes towards bilingual language use, code-switching and lexical borrowing. They consider language learning as extremely important nowadays, especially English if someone wants to live or work abroad, while Hungarian–Ukrainian bilingualism is most useful in Transcarpathia. The main problem is that the Ukrainian state language is taught as a first language to ethnic minorities instead of being taught as a foreign language like English. As a result, many Hungarian children cannot speak Ukrainian. Furthermore, most students are not aware of the importance of additive language teaching, which considers the native dialect of learners to be as precious as the standard language variant. Therefore, it would be advisable to introduce the additive approach into the curriculum of all prospective teachers in multilingual environments. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18292 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z